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The Golden Bough
A Study in Magic and Religion
Av James George Frazer, Robert Fraser
Häftad, 2009
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215 kr
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A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition …
Golden Bough
A Study in Magic and Religion
Av James George Frazer, Robert Fraser
E-bok, 1998
176 kr
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A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition …
Night Thoughts
The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne
Inbunden, 2012
1192 kr
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The poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001) led a life as surreal as his early poems. At eighteen he drafted the manifesto of the English Surrealist Group and at nineteen he published what remains an authoritative account of the international movement. He translated for Salvador Dalì and crossed swords …
Books Without Borders, Volume 1
The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture
Av Robert Fraser, Mary Hammond
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
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Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in …
Books Without Borders, Volume 1
The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture
Av Mary Hammond, Robert Fraser
E-bok, 2008
896 kr
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Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in …
Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes
Rewriting the Script
Inbunden, 2008
2888 kr
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This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way.Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity …
Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes
Rewriting the Script
Häftad, 2008
745 kr
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This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way.Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity …
West African Poetry
A Critical History
Häftad, 1986
767 kr
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Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in …
Victorian Quest Romance
Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle
Häftad, 1998
383 kr
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Late Victorian quest romance has recently attracted renewed attention from critics. Much of this interest has centred on its politics of gender, and its vision of Empire. This book prefers to view the genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology. …
Ben Okri
Towards the Invisible City
Häftad, 2002
383 kr
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This first ever full-length study of Ben Okri's life and work is based on twenty years of friendship and close attention to his texts. It argues that his writing is best appreciated against the background of his early exposure to the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70) and his attempts since then to forge …
Provincial Justice
Upper Canadian Legal Portraits
Häftad, 1992
438 kr
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In the formative years of Ontario's history, the law loomed large, as a profession, a preoccupation of legislators, a subject of debate and controversy, and a force that many citizens found themselves up against. Robert Fraser has drawn from the pages of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography the …
Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes
Rewriting the Script
E-bok, 2008
876 kr
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This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity …
Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes
Rewriting the Script
E-bok, 2008
851 kr
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This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity …
Sir James Frazer And The Literary Imagination
Essays In Affinity And Influence
E-bok, 1990
818 kr
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Proust and the Victorians
The Lamp of Memory
E-bok, 1994
877 kr
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In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin''s The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. Fourteen years later he back-projected the experience onto the narrator of Du cote de chez Swann who describes himself as a boy reading the self-same piece in the garden at Combray. In between lay a …
Proust and the Victorians
The Lamp of Memory
Häftad, 1994
634 kr
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In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin's The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. Fourteen years later he back-projected the experience onto the narrator of Du cote de chez Swann who describes himself as a boy reading the self-same piece in the garden at Combray. In between lay a …
Books Without Borders, Volume 1
The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture
Av Robert Fraser, Mary Hammond
Häftad, 2008
634 kr
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Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in …
Provincial Justice
Upper Canadian Legal Portraits
E-bok, 1992
1255 kr
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In the formative years of Ontario's history, the law loomed large, as a profession, a preoccupation of legislators, a subject of debate and controversy, and a force that many citizens found themselves up against. Robert Fraser has drawn from the pages of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography the …
Chameleon Poet
A Life of George Barker
E-bok, 2014
170 kr
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The poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written. 'I've stirred the facts around too much,' he told Robert Fraser. 'It simply can't be done.' Eliot wrote of his 'genius'. Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over …
Tartini's Rest
Tales Two Brothers Told
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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"Without Contraries is no progression." - William BlakeBertram and Eustace are brothers. Bertram is extroverted, practical, a celebrity and a social success. Eustace is introverted, scholarly and shyly oblique. They understand neither themselves nor one another. Instead, they tell one another …
After Ancient Biography
Modern Types and Classical Archetypes
Inbunden, 2020
604 kr
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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first …
After Ancient Biography
Modern Types and Classical Archetypes
E-bok, 2020
803 kr
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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first …
After Ancient Biography
Modern Types and Classical Archetypes
Häftad, 2021
604 kr
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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first …
Literature, Music and Cosmopolitanism
Culture as Migration
E-bok, 2018
402 kr
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This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture - without exception - is migrant culture. It draws on examples ranging from the first to the twenty-first centuries AD, on locations …
